Saturday, February 12, 2005

Israel will allow dozens of exiled Palestinian militants to return home in a move likely to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's effort to talk Islamist militants into a truce, officials have said.

Two opposition supporters have been killed in the capital of Togo, in west Africa, the Government said, during clashes with the country's security forces sent to break up a protest over last week's abrupt transfer of power.